US694121A - Shuffle-board. - Google Patents

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No. a94,|2|. Patented Feb. 25, I902.

. H. VAUGHAN.

SHUFFLE BOARD.

(Application filed Aug. 81, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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I HARLAND VAUGHAN, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHUFFLE-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,121, dated February 25, 1902.

Application filed August 31,1901. Serial No. 73,936. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARLAND VAUGHAN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shuffle-Boards, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in shuffle-boards, and has for its object the production of a shuffle-board which is available for as great efficiency as the plain shuttleboards heretofore used whereon sand was employed and without the objection incidental to the employment of sand.

Anotherobject is to provide in conjunction with the covering for the shuffle-board, and which covering is of such character as to preclude the necessity for the use of sand, cushioning appliances outside of the elongated platform-like portion of the board, which cushioning appliances are confined by extensions of the covering for the top board or platform.

The invention is fully and clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings; and it consists in the shuffle-board constructed as hereinafter describedin conjunction with said drawings and as pointed out in the claims.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a partial longitudinalsectional view taken on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the shufiie-board,taken on the line 3 3, Fig. 1. Figs. 4 and 5 represent the ordinary weights or disks employed in the playing of the game of shuffle-board.

In the drawings, A represents the base of the shuffle-board, superimposed on which is the platform or top board B, somewhat narrower than the base, edgewise outside of which and between the margins thereof and the edges of the base having the upstanding boards 0 are the gutters a a. The bottoms of the gutters have the pads or cusl1ionsb,and the inner sides ofthe gutters have the pads or cushions d,the same being composed of cotton padding, excelsior, or other suitable material, and the top board B,padded base of the gutters,and the padded sides of the gutters are covered and inclosed by the tightly-stretched covering f, the same overlying the entire top and edges of the top board and being extended outwardly therefrom, as clearly shown in the drawings, to cover the cushions, being confined by the tacks g, as shown.

The covering should be of a comparatively rough textile fabric, such as canvas or duck, and the portion thereof which overlies the top board has incorporated therein preparatory to bringing the shuffle-board into the best condition for use a quantity of pulverized soapstone, whereby to present a top surface to the shuffle-board of the best character for the proper manner of sliding thereover of .thedisks.

am of course awarethat the sides of gutters for alleys have been cushioned, and of course I make no claim which would relate thereto or fail to distinguish therefrom; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a shuffie-board,the combination of a base having a marginal upstanding wall and a top board of less length and width than the base to form a gutter around its sides and ends, cushions surrounding the top board, and a textile covering closely fitting over the top board and extended over to confine the cushions, substantially as described.

2. Ina shufiie-board, the combination of a base having a marginal upstanding walland a top board of less length and width than the base to form a gutter around its sides and ends, cushions at the base of the gutter and at the inner sides of the upstanding wall, a textile covering closely fitting over the top and edges of the top board and extended over both the base and side cushions, and fastening means, substantially as shown to separate and confine the cushions.

3. A shuffle-board consisting of a base, a top board thereabove of less width and length than the base, and a surrounding edge wall HARLAND VAUGHAN.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLows, M. A. CAMPBELL.

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